RHSA-2017:2457 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

This update upgrades Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151.

Security Fix(es):

• This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the Adobe Security Bulletin listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2017-3085, CVE-2017-3106)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1479887 - CVE-2017-3106 flash-plugin: Remote Code Execution due to Type Confusion issue fixed in APSB17-23
• BZ - 1479888 - CVE-2017-3085 flash-plugin: Information Disclosure via Security Bypass issue fixed in APSB17-23

CVEs

• CVE-2017-3085
• CVE-2017-3106

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-23.html